Republican Senator Ted Cruz thinks we need to “stop attacking pedophiles.”

The Texas senator made the brutal (potentially) Freudian slip during a Senate hearing about crime on Tuesday.

“Senator Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that’s a great idea, we should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said. “How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murders?’ How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rapes?’ How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles?’” […]


(other outlets portray it as more clearly a mistake, but we’re rewarding the outlet leaning into the clickbait because it’s more onion-y 🫠)

    • shittydwarf@piefed.social
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      7 days ago

      Trump, Cosby, Weinstein and other famous rapists employ “fixers” to handle their victims. They threaten/coerce/trick them into silence with vicious NDAs, obtaining the “rights” to their stories and burying them, forcing abortions, etc. really would be easier to just erase them since thats a lot of effort!